Hi! Streammed talk By Yochai Benkler from Barcelona on 25th Feb 18:30 on
idea of the Commons and the Future of Capitalism. The political importance of CBPP
from the Spanish context. Can we gain an economy, politics and society of the commons?. Cheers! Mayo

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Yochai Benkler from Barcelona: Can we gain an economy, politics and society of the commons?

Emerging model of producation, political innovation and the geopolitics of Internet from the Spanish context of change of era

Idea of the Commons and the Future of Capitalism. The political importance of CBPP and its very continued relevance.

Conference on occasion of the publication of the work in Spanish "The Wealth of Networks" (published in Spanish by
Icaria Editorial).

â When? 25 February 2015 From 18:30 to 20:30 talk. The event will continue in a networking meet up.

â Where?

Barcelona:

CCCB - Montalegre, 5 - 08001 Barcelona

Classroom 1 (Limited capacity)

Afterword (20:30 onward) there will be a networking meet up at CCCBar.

Madrid: There will be an streaming of the event organized by
Media Lab Prado (Plaza de las Letras. Calle Alameda, 15. 28014 Madrid). Participants in Madrid will be able to send questions for the debate.

Yochai Benkler is a professor at theFaculty of Law and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is the author of the book - recently published by Icaria in Spanish - "The Wealth of Networks" benchmark
studies Internet and society. His work examines the ways in which information technologies allow extensive forms of collaboration can have transformative consequences for the economy and society

The research Benkler is developed in three areas connected. On the one hand, "peer production based on the common good" as collaborative initiatives of free software that Wikipedia is becoming the emerging production model and reference. On the other hand,
introduced the concept of public space network, and analyzes to what extent is the process of transforming public policy and political mobilization. Finally, an expert on Internet policy and architecture to new technologies. Through these lines of work explores
the hypothesis of the emergence of a third organizational model commons, which would break the pairing state - market, and would favor greater centrality and empowerment of civil society as an agent.

From these key reading Benkler incorporate elements to understand the change of time in Spain.

Mayo Fuster Morell is a researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. One expert in the governance of communities
based on collaborative production between equals. P2Pvalue directs research on conditions that favor the creation of value in the production network. One member of the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation.

Joan Subirats Humet is professor of Political Science at UAB and researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policy at the University Autonoma of Barcelona. Hir areas of research include public policy analysis, democratic innovation,
public participation and local and regional government. He has published numerous books, including the Spanish Urban Policies (2011) and sociedad Otra, otra Âpolitics? "Not to represent us" democracy of the policy.

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